Play It Again, Charlie Brown
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Play It Again, Charlie Brown is the seventh prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1971.
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Vince Guaraldi
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Vincent Anthony Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist who composed music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melod
Play It Again, Charlie Brown
…harpsichordist Lillian Steuber. Eight different piano sonatas and one symphony appear in the television special. Remaining cues were divided between Vince Guaraldi and Harry Bluestone and are noted as such. The score was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Quartet on October 23, 1970 and in Winter 1971 at Western…
Guaraldi in 1967
Guaraldi (left) with Bernard Bragg and Don Freeman at KQED studios, April 1961.
Guaraldi (left), Fred Marshall and Jerry Granelli performing as the Vince Guaraldi Trio in 1963.
Guaraldi made extensive use of the Fender Rhodes electric piano on most 1970s-era Peanuts music scores.